Diethelm Wallwiener

Diethelm Wallwiener (born April 15, 1954 in Saarlouis ) is a German gynecologist , obstetrician and oncologist .

Live and act

Wallwiener studied medicine at the Saarland University in Homburg from 1975 to 1981 . He was awarded the 1982 Dissertation "Experimental anastomosis technique with fibrin glue at the Kaninchentube" at the University Women's Hospital Homburg doctorate . From 1988 to 1998 he was a senior physician at the University Women's Clinic in Heidelberg . Here he completed his habilitation in 1990 and in 1991 received an honorary professorship at the University Women's Clinic in Jena . In 1995 he became deputy head of department at the University Women's Clinic in Heidelberg and an extraordinary professor in 1996 , before he was appointed to the chairs of the University of Leipzig and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 1997 . Wallwiener followed the call to Tübingen. Since 1998 he has been the Medical Director of the University Women's Clinic there. He turned down further offers, in 2002 to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in 2003 to the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg .

Wallwiener's specialty is experimental-operative gynecology and oncosurgery. From 2002 to 2012 he was President of the German Society for Senology . Wallwiener is also past president of the European Society for Gynecological Endoscopy (ESGE), member of the board of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and co-editor of various specialist journals.

Fonts (selection)

• Experimental anastomosis technique with fibrin glue on the rabbit tube. 1982 ( dissertation , Saarland University, 1982).
• Heinrich Schmidt-Matthiesen , Gunther Bastert , Diethelm Wallwiener (eds.): Gynecological oncology: diagnostics, therapy and aftercare - based on the AGO guidelines . Schattauer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7945-2182-X ( full text in the Google book search).
• Diethelm Wallwiener, Walter Jonat , Rolf Kreienberg , Klaus Friese , Klaus Diedrich, Matthias W. Beckmann (eds.): Atlas of gynecological operations. Founded by Hans A. Hirsch, Otto Käser, Franz Anton Iklé. Thieme, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-13-357007-7 .
• Hans Georg Bender , Diethelm Wallwiener: Quality assurance in clinical gynecology: including GOÄ commentary and financing. Kramarz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941130-02-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Diethelm Wallwiener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Diethelm Wallwiener on the website of the University Women's Clinic in Tübingen